1275. CAPT. GEORGE WARREN FOSTER (Jacob, William, Jacob, Isaac, Reginald, Reginald), b. Sept. 13, 1817, Whitehall, N. Y.; m. Oct. 18, 1848, Mary Elizabeth Coe, b. Oct. 23, 1830. At the age of five years he moved with his parents to the town of Mentz, Cayuga county, in the same state. Here he attended the district schools and also worked on his father's farm. At the age of fifteen he taught the district school in a neighboring district and also again in his seventeenth year. The next year was occupied in home study and reciting at the academy in Auburn, which was five miles distant and to which he walked twice a week. In 1837 he entered the law office of Hon. William H. Seward, where he remained until 1841 and during which time he served as clerk of the Court of Civil and Criminal Jurisdiction. He was also deputy clerk of the United States district court for the Northern district of New York. In the fall of 1842 he entered Yale law school, and remained one year and finished all the studies in the course. After his return from law school he practiced law at Port Byron for two years. In the fall of 1845 he came West, arriving at Milwaukee September 21, 1845, and opened a law office there. That winter, not finding the law business lucrative, he taught school at Port Washington. In the fall of 1846 he commenced surveying and also did conveyancing for the new settlers, who were then pouring in; his law business also began to grow. In 1879 he moved to Appleton, Wis., where, on account of his heavy professional labors, his nervous system broke down completely and he was compelled to give up his profession entirely and remove to Port Washington, where he again resumed his practice in 1884 and continued in active practice until his death. He was one of the leading members of the Wisconsin bar. During the war he was appointed judge-advocate by the governor of Wisconsin with the rank of captain, and was also appointed specil district attorney to prosecute those engaged in the draft riots at Port Washington. He was one of the leading citizens and the original mover toward the building of a harbor at Port Washington-went to Washington and appeared before the committee on rivers and harbors, and his labors procured the first appropriation for the harbor improvement. He was an excellent German scholar and proficient in Greek, Latin and French. He was a profound scholar, and in all his researches he worked back to the fundamental principle of the subject under discussion. He was in all his professional labors a profound lawyer in all the meaning of that word. He was a staunch Republican in politics and before the organization of that party was a Whig. He died February 6, 1895. Res., Port Washington, Wis.

2281. i. 8282. ii. 2283. iii.

2284. iv.

2285. V. 2286. vi. 2287. vii.

SOPHIA LOUISE, b. Feb. 29, 1852; d. Sept. 13, 1864; unm.
ADDIE COE, b. Dec. 25 1861; d. Sept. 20, 1864; unm.
WILLIAM MASON, b. July 1, 1859; unm. Received a common
school education and attended Lawrence University, at Apple-
ton, Wis., for one year; admitted to the bar in 1884, and prac-
ticed law at Milwaukee, Wis, since 1888. Politics, Republican.
GEORGE CHAMPLIN, b. Oct. 30, 1856; unm. Res., Hurley,
Wis. Profession, lawyer. Admitted to the bar Jan. 30, 1877, at
Port Washington, Wis. County judge of Florence county, Wis.,
in the years 1883, 1884 and 1885. District attorney of Iron county,
Wis, for the years 1895, 1896, 1897 and 1898. Politics, Repub-

lican.

CHARLES LINNEUS, b. March 21, 1865; d. Jan. 23, 1887; unm.
ANNIE STEWART, b. Aug. 29, 1866; unm.

FREDERICK ALBERT, b. June 20, 1871; unm. Res., Mil-
waukee, Wis. At the age of eight years he moved, with the rest
of his father's family, to Appleton, Wis., where they lived for a
few years, when, on account of his father's ill health, they re-
turned to Port Washington. He there attended the public and
high schools and was graduated from the latter at the age of fif-
teen. He then attended the high school at Niles, Mich., for a
short time. In his seventeenth year he entered a law office in
Milwaukee, Wis., where he remained until the winter of 1891,
when he entered the University of Wisconsin, taking two years
of academic work and then entering the law department of the
university, from which he was graduated with the class of 1895.
Before entering law school, he took and passed the state bar

examination and was admitted to the bar. While in the law department of the university, he was private secretary to Justices Cassaday and Orton, of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. He is a member of the Chi Psi fraternity. After finishing his law course he entered the legal department of the Santa Fé railroad company at Chicago. In 1896 he removed to Milwaukee, where he is practicing his profession. In politics he has followed in the footsteps of his father. Addresses: William M. Foster, 101 New Ins. Bldg., Milwaukee, Wis.; Annie S. Foster, res., Milwaukee, Wis.

1278. COL. JACOB THOMAS FOSTER (Jacob, William, Jacob, Isaac, Reginald, Reginald), b. Mentz, N. Y.. June 23, 1827; m. Port Washington, Wis., Nov. 26, 1849. Sarah Mariah Page, b. May 5, 1833; d. Dec. 8, 1866, accidentally killed in a mill at Hokah, Minn., by her dress catching in machinery; m. 2d. Jan. 3, 1869, Anna Barber, b., 1826; d. Feb. 2, 1893; m. 3d, Nov. 29, 1893, in Chicago, Georgia Huston, b., 1867. Res., Chicago, Ill., 231 Forty-second street.

2288. i. 2289. ii.

2290. iii.

JACOB FRANK, b. March 28, 1851; m. Clara Walton.

GENEVIEVE SARAH, b. Sept. 25, 1853; m., April 15, 1869, Lewis
Cass Foote. Res., Waterloo, Iowa; 2 ch.

CLARK HARROLD, b. Dec. 11, 1859; m. Hattie Kellogg.

1290. JOB YOUNG FOSTER (Jacob, Isaac, Jacob, Isaac, Reginald, Reginald), b. Gray, Me., Dec. 28, 1803; m. there April 8, 1827, Stateria Leighton, of Falmouth. Res., Gray, Me.

2291. i. JULIA ANN C., b.

1292.

Dry Mills, Me.

: m., Oct. 29, 1848, Job A. Spencer. Res.,

SHEPHEL FOSTER (Jacob, Isaac, Jacob, Isaac, Reginald, Reginald), b. Gray, Me., Feb. 12, 1809; m. Jan. 17, 1836, Rosana Dolloff, of Paris, b. Oct. 25, 1814; d. March 23, 1890. He was a farmer. He d. Oct. 22, 1891. Res., Gray, Me. 2292. i. DORCAS C., b. Feb. 17, 1837.

2293.

ii.

2294. iii.

2295. iv. 2296. V. 2297. vi.

MARSHALL, b. Sept. 14, 1838; m. Feb. 12, 1883, Margaret Eleanor

Young Rude, b. Prince Edward's Island, July 12, 1847. He is a farmer. Res., s. p., Gray Corner, Me.

JACOB, b. Aug. 4, 1841; m. Mary Allen.

ANNE M., b. Dec. 19, 1846.

DANIEL A., b. May 7, 1851.

EDWARD P., b. Aug. 1, 1853.

2298. vii.

MARY H., b. Nov. 3, 1855.

SHEPHEL GRANVILLE, b. April 11, 1856; m. Carrie J. Davis.

2299. viii.

1298. SOLOMON BERRY FOSTER (Samuel, Isaac, Jacob, Isaac, Reginald, Reginald), b. Gray, Me., Nov. 4, 1810; m. Nov. 4, 1835, Eunice Ricker, of Poland, b. March 4, 1817; d. Jan. 16, 1869. He was a carpenter and farmer. He d. Jan. 27,

1883. Res., Gray, Me.

2300. i. 2301. ii.

2302. iii.

2303. iv. 2304. V. 2305. vi.

2306. vii.

2307. viii. 2308. ix.

2309. X.

I.

Ch. :
2. Eu-

THOMAS J., b. Oct. 17, 1836; m. Mary R. Devine.
RUTH JORDAN, b. April 18, 1839; m. Dec. 2, 1865, Samuel P.
Cummings, b. Aug. 19, 1837. Res., North Gray, Me.
Eliza J. Cummings, b. July 17, 1866; d. July 28, 1866.
gene I. Cummings, b. Aug. 29, 1867; m. March, 1892. Add.,
Cumberland Mills, Me. 3 Lewis W. Cummings, b. Oct. 29, 1868;
m. Oct 15, 1891. Add., Millville, Mass. 4. Lena A. Cummings,
b. July 17, 1871; d. Sept. 14, 1872. 5. Ethel I. Cummings, b.
June 27, 1873. Add., Lewiston, Me. 6. Adelbert B. Cummings,
b. June 17. 1875. Add., North Gray, Me. 7. Bessie W. Cum-
mings, b. Oct 27, 1878. Add., North Gray, Me.
LAVINA C., b. Jan. 23, 1842; w. f. k., Aug., 1877.
HENRY M., b. April 22, 1844: d. Aug. 27, 1858.
HORACE C., b. Sept. 7. 1847; m. Annie M. Frank.
CHARLES J., b. Dec. 16, 1849; m. Ella C. Spiller.
JOHN R., b. Dec. 16, 1851; m.

EARNEST, b. March 14, 1853; d. March, 1854.
ANNIE L., b. Aug. 6, 1855; d. Jan. 3, 1878.

HENRY W., b. Dec. 11, 1857; m. Jennie E. Colley.

1300. SAMUEL J. FOSTER (Samuel, Isaac, Jacob, Isaac, Reginald, Reginald), b. Gray Me, Jan. 14, 1808; m., at Poland, 1828, Annie Emerson, of Poland. He d. May 21, 1877. Res., Gray, Me.

2310. i. 2311. ii.

2312.

iii.

2313. iv. 2314. V. 2315 vi.

2316. vii.

MARTHA A., b.

-; m., Oct. 1, 1848, Charles E. Libby. HANNAH C., b --; m., Sept. 16, 1849, Marshall Morse. JONATHAN O., b. Nov. 29, 1833; m. Jan. 2, 1897.

JANE, b. - m. Joel S. Bailey.

GEORGE, b. Jan. 19, 1839. Res. in California.

SAMUEL J., b. in 1844; m. and Res. North Gray, Me.

SILAS W., b. Dec. 22, 1835; m. Sarah J. Bailey and Angie A.
Briggs.

1304. PHILIP FOSTER (William, Isaac, Jacob, Isaac, Reginald, Reginald), b. Argyle, Me., 1806; m. there about 1827, Fannie Cummings, d. July, 1829; m. 2d., --, 1834.-Was a farmer and stock raiser. Philip Foster was born in Maine and married Miss Fannie Cummings. He was employed by a company to go to California to build some mills. A ship was loaded with machinery, and he was put in charge, but on the passage the ship went to Honolulu, Sandwich Islands, and was there about six months, and Mr. Foster proceeded to Portland, Ore. He finally settled at Oregon City and entered the mercantile business, but later he engaged in the building of the toll road across the Cascade mountains, having his headquarters on the west side. Here he established a trading post to furnish supplies to the immigrants. Mr. Foster was one of the earliest settlers of Oregon, coming about 1843. He died in 1887, at the age of eighty years. His wife died one year after marriage. He d. Clackamas, E. Ore., 1887. Res., Argyle, Me. 2317. i. GEORGE, b. Res., Vancouver, Ore. 2318. ii. LUCY A., b. --: m. des. is Burnice Howell, of Portland, Ore. FRANK W., b. —; m. ——,

2319. iii. 2320. iv. 2321. V. 2322. vi. 2323. vii. 2324.

viii.

1305.

Burnett. She d. Dec. 26, 18-. A

JAMES W., b. May 22, 1829; m. Louisa M. Rockhill.
MARY, b

ISAAC FOSTER (William, Isaac, Jacob, Isaac, Reginald, Reginald), b. Argyle, Me., March 21, 1807; m. Rachel Jane Cheever, b., 1816; d., Oct. 7, 1838; m. 2d. Sarah Jane Howard, b. Aug. 3, 1821; d. Sept. 23, 1895. Was a farmer and lumberman. He d. Oct. 29, 1886. Res., Argyle, Me.

2325. i.

2326. ii.

HARVEY, b.

WILLIAM STINSON, b. Aug. 18, 1845; m. Sarah A. Bussell and
Nancy B. Jones. Relatives are Mrs. John B. Bussell, Old Town,
Me. Mrs. Sarah A. Foster, Old Town, Me.; Andrew H. Tibbetts,
Old Town, Me.; Harvey Foster, 5 Sherwin street, Waterville, Me.

1310. WILLIAM CHARLES FOSTER (William, Isaac, Jacob, Isaac, Reginald, Reginald), b. Argyle, Me., Sept. 8, 1823; m. Nov. 27, 1856, Rosanna Grant, b. Oct. 31, 1838. He is a farmer and lumberman. Res., Argyle, Me.

LUCY R., b. March 12, 1864; m.
bush, Me.

2327. i.

2328. ii. 2329. iii.

Me.

2330. iv. 2331. v.

Littlefield. Res., Green

ESTHER, b. Feb. 15, 1866; d. Dec. 24, 1884.
MARY E., b. March 28, 1868; m.

ALBERT F., b. Sept. 27, 1870.

Ballard. Res., Old Town,

STEPHEN A., b. Dec. 2, 1872; m. and Res. Argyle, Me.

1311. JOSEPH WELLINGTON FOSTER (William, Isaac, Jacob, Isaac, Reginald, Reginald), b. Maine, Oct. 24, 1815; m. in Franklin Dec. 9, 1837. Harriet L. Scammon, b. Sept. 29, 1807; d. July 14..1868, at Franklin, Me. Joseph W. Foster was born at Oldtown, Penobscot county, Me.; educated in common schools and seminary. At the age of twenty-one years went to Washington county in charge of lumbering operations at Cherryfield, on the Narraguagus river, where he built mills and operated for some years. Was married to Miss Harriet Scammon, of Franklin, while in business in Cherryfield. Some years after moved to Franklin, Hancock county, and continued in the lumbering business till an old man. He was a man of good habits; strictly temperate, a devout member of the church; a trusted public

officer all his life; never allowed the needy to go from his home empty-handed. The last year of his life was spent in Big Rapids, Mich., where he died at the age of about sixty years, June 19, 1869. Res., Franklin, Me.

2332. i.

1312.

STEPHEN W., b. Feb. 22, 1839; m. Louisa F. Fickett.
BETSEY J., b Aug. 21, 1840. She d. 1862.

JOHN H., b. Feb. 11, 1842: m. Georgiana Dykins.

Donnell, b. Jan. 8, 1838.
Louise, b. Sept. 13, 1862.
Harlal L., b. Oct. 2. 1870.

OPHELIA MARIA, b. Sept. 23, 1843; m. Nov. 21, 1861, Orin S.
Res., Franklin, Me. Ch. : 1. Hattie
2. Caddie Marie, b. Nov. 14, 1863. 3.
4. Mabel C., b. Aug. 8, 1877. Hattie
Blaisdell,

L. Graves, North East Harbor, Me.; Caddie M.
Franklin, Me.

MARTHA ANN, b. April 24, 1845.

JAMES F. b. Sept. 4, 1847.

DUDLEY W., b. Nov. 1, 1848; m. Clara M. Wakefield.

HEMAN NICKERSON FOSTER (William, Isaac, Jacob, Isaac, Reginald, Reginald), b. Argyle, Me., July 5, 1826; m. March 13, 1849, at Greenbush, Me., Eliza Moore, b. May 3, 1832. He is a farmer and lumberman. Res., Argyle, Me. 2339. i. HARRITTA, b. Feb. 8, 1850; Mrs. Isaac Terrill, Oldtown, Me. LUCY J., b. Dec. 23, 1851; d. Aug. 24, 1858. SARAH E., b. Oct. 14, 1854; d Feb. 2, 1895. NANCY E., b. Jan. 18, 1857; d. Sept. 1, 1858.

2340. ii. 2341. iii.

2342. iv.

2343. V. 2344. vi. 2345. vii. 2346 viii.

RUEL H., b. Jan. 20, 1859; m. April 15, 1883. Add., Argyle, Me.
ADONIRAM, b. April 20, 1861; d. April 21, 1861.

ANDREW W.,b. Nov. 27, 1863; m. June, 1886 Ad., Augusta, Me.
ADELBERT E., b. Feb. 11, 1866; m., November, 1894.
Argyle, Me.

ARTHUR M., b. Aug 25, 1868; d. Sept. 5, 1879.
NORA M., b. July 8, 1871; d. March 16, 1879.

Add.,

1313. CAPT. JOSEPH FOSTER (Joseph, Joseph, Jeremiah, John, Reginald, Reginald), b. Gloucester, Mass., Aug. 2, 1784; m., Sept. 2, 1838, Adelaide Coues Spalding, dau. of Dr. Lyman and Elizabeth (Coues), b. Dec. 3. 1805. She d., Portsmouth, N. H., Sept. 24, 1898. He was a sea captain. After attending school in Boston he decided to go to sea at once, and made his first voyage in the Massachusetts, William Vinson Hutchings, of Gloucester, master, a large ship belonging to Boston. While at Batavia the ship was engaged to go to Japan, and proceeded under Dutch colors to Nagasaki, where the Dutch were allowed to send one vessel every year, this being the only trade allowed with foreigners. The Massachusetts was at Nagasaki during the winter of 1799-1800, and is believed to have been the second American vessel which visited that country. A Japanese picture, brought home on that voyage, marked "Joseph Foster, Jr., Ship Massachusetts, William Hutchings, master, Japan, 1799," and "Japan, April, 1800," is still preserved. He was captain of the private-armed schooner-of-war Sword Fish in 1812. He married, May 17, 1806, Lucy Elwell, of Gloucester, born February 16, 1784; died September 7, 1837. He again married, September 2, 1838, in Portsmouth, N. H., Adelaide Coues Spalding, born December 3, 1805, in Portsmouth, daughter of Lyman Spalding, M. D., and Elizabeth (Coues) Spalding of that place. Notices of Dr. Spalding will be found in the Spalding Memorial, page 130, the Rambles About Portsmouth, Allibone's Dictionary of Authors, the American Cyclopædia, and Johnson's Universal Cyclopædia, from the last of which the following is taken: Lyman Spalding, M. D., was born June 5, 1775, at Cornish, N. H., graduated at Dartmouth college in 1798; studied medicine and aided in the establishment of the medical school of Dartmouth, where he delivered the first course of lectures on chemistry; began the practice of his profession at Portsmouth, in 1799; in 1812 became president of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, in Western New York; removed to New York City in 1813; planned the United States Pharmacopœia, and in 1820 was one of the committee for its publication; was a skillful anatomist, and member of many learned societies in Europe and America. Died October 30, 1821, in Portsmouth, N. H. Captain Foster died December 19. 1843, on board brig Ventrosa, of Boston, at Holmes' Hole, Mass. The Gloucester Telegraph, noticing his death, said: "It is with the deepest pain and sorrow that we announce the death of Captain Foster. His loss is most keenly felt in this whole community. Captain Foster was a man much esteemed and respected by all who were acquainted with him for his honesty,

integrity and kindness of heart. He had been for many years a shipmaster of the first respectability and standing from this port and Boston." Mrs. Foster died in Portsmouth, N. H., Sept. 24, 1898. "Died.-Foster. In this city, September 24th, at the residence of her son, Pay Inspector Joseph Foster, United States Navy, Mrs. Adelaide Coues Foster, aged ninety-two years, nine months and twenty-one days, daughter of Lyman Spalding, M. D., of Portsmouth, and widow of Capt. Joseph

Foster, of Gloucester, Mass. Funeral this Monday afternoon at half past two o'clock."-[Portsmouth, N. H., Chronicle, Sept. 26, 1898.] "Adelaide Coues Foster. -Mrs. Adelaide Coues Foster, the aged and esteemed widow of Joseph Foster, and mother of Pay Inspector Joseph Foster, United States Navy, died at the residence of her son in this city, early on Saturday after a long illness. Her age was ninetytwo years, nine months and twenty-one days. She is survived by two sons. [Portsmouth, N. H., Chronicle, Sept. 26, 1898.] He died at sea Dec. 19, 1843. Res., Gloucester, Mass., and Portsmouth, N. H.